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  • ylai@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlHow does she know...
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    10 months ago

    AMD’s support for AI is just fine

    This is quite untrue, especially if you do actual research and not just run other people’s models. For example, ROCm is missing in many sparse autograd frameworks, e.g. pytorch_sparse, or having a viable alternative to Nvidias MinkowskiEngine. This is needed if you do any state-of-the-art convnets with attention-like sparsity.





  • Completely missing in the Lemmy post “summary,” from the W&B’s Conclusion portion:

    We are still miles apart from the desktop NVIDIA GPUs and the same analysis from the M1Pro hold today. It’s nice seeing Apple capable of improving the GPU performance over the previous generation, but we will probably have to wait to replace our NVIDIA GPUs.

    Don’t get me wrong, the performance per watt is good but we are still far behind what you get on any current Nvidia desktop GPU. Check this report to see how they compare against NVIDIA.






  • ylai@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlWhen you hear someone pronounce GIF as 'JIF
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    1 year ago

    Nearly every single word in English that starts with a g followed by a soft ih/eh vowel is pronounced as a soft g, just a few:

    That is patently not true and blatant cherry picking, e.g. already contradicted by the lexically matching word “gift” (and there are “giggle”, “gild”, “girl”, “git”, “give”, “gizmo”, etc.). See Wikipedia, which referenced linguists studying this:

    An analysis of 269 words by linguist Michael Dow found near-tied results on whether a hard or soft g was more appropriate based on other English words; the results varied somewhat depending on what parameters were used.[11] Of the 105 words that contained gi somewhere in the word, 68 used the soft g while only 37 employed its counterpart. However, the hard g words were found to be significantly more common in everyday English; […]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_GIF#Cause

    Michael Dow is an associate professor in linguistics with specialization in phonology, by the way.

    and if you’re confused why others pronounce it with a soft G, they would seem to be simply more familiar with the English language 🤷‍♂️

    Well, clearly you are already not as “familiar with the English language” as you might think.